Patients who perceived their aim of treatment to be cured, who did not use avoidance as a coping strategy or who were concerned about their disease experienced longer periods without relapse.
In Latin America, for example, reforms were perceived as aiming to undermine the fundamental values that had inspired the design of the system, and sparked off a wave of resistance and strikes in El Salvador and Mexico.
Ms. Quinn also joined gay rights advocates who protested the pope's visit to St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1995, and fought against antipornography rules introduced by Mr. Giuliani, which were widely perceived as aimed at gay men.
Patients were asked to indicate the number of RT treatment and outpatient appointments they had attended; whether they had experienced a second diagnosis and/or recurrence; and whether they perceived that the aim of their treatment was to cure the cancer, prevent the cancer from coming back or control symptoms of cancer (cure is not possible).
In his 1989 race for agriculture commissioner, for instance, he emphasized his opponent's endorsement of Jesse Jackson for president, running a commercial that many perceived to be aimed at white voters in East Texas.
He is not alone in taking aim at perceived abuses of short-selling.
By and large, it used to be that a war began when a war aim was perceived.
He may also be the next leader to fall as the country's Shiite prime minister takes aim at perceived rivals and enemies, his fate a litmus test for a country in crisis.
In 1968, dismayed by the government's actions to crack down on private charities, Mr. Houk created the National Heritage Foundation in anticipation of the 1969 Tax Reform Act, which took aim at perceived abuses by corporations and individuals whose charitable activities were said to be more for their benefit than that of others.
